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Gio Swaby: Fresh Up: at Peabody Essex Museum

Past exhibition
12 August - 26 November 2023
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  • Artist Gio Swaby’s First Solo Show Brings Stunning Fabric Portraits to the Peabody Essex Museum

    Artist Gio Swaby’s First Solo Show Brings Stunning Fabric Portraits to the Peabody Essex Museum

    Alexandra Pecci for Northshore Magazine October 4, 2023
    The domestic arts of sewing, embroidery, and quilting result in beautiful, intricate creations that are bright, colorful, and intimate. But they’ve also been long associated...
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  • 10 art exhibits to explore this fall

    10 art exhibits to explore this fall

    Solon Kelleher for WBUR September 22, 2023
    'Gio Swaby: Fresh Up' From afar, a Gio Swaby portrait may resemble an acrylic painting: bright colors and thick lines. But up close, it’s clear...
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  • At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

    At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

    Murray Whyte for Boston Globe August 24, 2023
    Loose black thread dangles from bare canvas in Gio Swaby’s “Another Side to Me” series, all of them self-portraits, or portraits of women close to...
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  • my pretty side frays: Chenoa Baker shares an inside look at Gio Swaby’s creative process

    my pretty side frays: Chenoa Baker shares an inside look at Gio Swaby’s creative process

    Chenoa Baker for Peabody Essex Museum August 7, 2023
    Going out requires preparation: adjusting necklines, swooping edges, applying makeup and sculpting hair, a party punctuated by scuffed heels, haloed flyaways, flaked product and smeared...
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  • A word with Gio Swaby

    A word with Gio Swaby

    Dinah Cardin for Peabody Essex Museum July 28, 2023
    Gio Swaby is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Swaby was born in 1991 in the Bahamas and works in Canada....
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  • Five museum shows to enrich your summer excursions, from Connecticut to Maine

    Five museum shows to enrich your summer excursions, from Connecticut to Maine

    Murray Whyte for Boston Globe July 14, 2023
    GIO SWABY: FRESH UP A quiltmaker with a thoroughly contemporary vision for the medium, Swaby, who is in her early 30s, makes portraits of the...
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